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Eligible/Ineligible Products
- Eligible Products
- Poultry and poultry products.
- Beef and beef products. Effective for beef
and beef products derived from cattle
slaughtered on or after May 5, 2009, all age
restrictions and product restrictions have
been removed.*
Documentation Requirements
- Poultry and poultry products must be accompanied by FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export
Certificate of Wholesomeness. The city and state location of the establishment that produced the
poultry or poultry product and the following certification statement must be included in the Remarks
section or as an FSIS letterhead certificate:
"The meat is derived from birds which have been kept at a farm since they were hatched or
for the past 21 days and in which there has been no evidence of notifiable avian influenza (NAI)
in the past 21 days."
- Beef and beef products. Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5,
Export Certificate of Wholesomeness and an FSIS
letterhead certificate:*
- The United States complies with the conditions
in the Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the OIE
as a country that presents a Controlled Risk for
bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Estados Unidos cumple con las condiciones del
Código de Salud de Animales Terrestres de la OIE
como un país que presenta un Riesgo Controlado
para la encefalopatía espongiforme bovina.
- The bovine meat and meat products were produced
and handled in a manner which ensures that such
products do not contain and are not contaminated
with the following specified risk materials: the
brain, skull, eyes, trigeminal ganglia, spinal
cord, vertebral column (excluding the vertebrae of
the tail, the transverse processes of the thoracic
and lumbar vertebrae, and the wings of the sacrum)
and dorsal root ganglia of cattle 30 months of age
and older; and the tonsils and distal ileum of the
small intestine of cattle regardless of age.
Las carnes bovinas y los productos cárnicos
fueron producidos y manejados en una manera que
asegure que estos productos no contienen y no
fueron contaminados con los materiales de riesgo
específicos: cerebro, cráneo, ojos, ganglio
trigémino, medula espinal, columna vertebral (excluyendo
las vértebras de la cola, las protuberancias
transversas de las vértebras torácicas y
lumbares y las alas del sacro), y ganglios de la
raíz dorsal de vacunos de 30 meses de edad o mas
meses de edad y amígdalas e ilion distal de todas
las edades.
- The method of stunning cattle does not include
intracranial gas injection or the use of sharp
instruments which could cut the medulla (pithing).
El método para aturdir el ganado no incluye el
uso de inyección intracraneal de aire o gas, ni
es mediante corte de médula.
Plants Eligible to Export
All Federally inspection establishments are eligible to export.
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